Anti-Semitism
-1933-39
- Anti-Jewish laws - Forced Jews to register and wear Star of David - This turned into forcing Jews out of careers and homes - Prohibited marriage between Jews and Non-Jewish Germans - Finally loss of citizenship Kristalnacht - 9 November 1938 - Kristall (Glass) - Nacht ( Night( - Referring to the thousands of Jewish shop and synagogue windows that were smashed and burned - Many jews imprisoned - State Sanctioned Propaganda, Lebensraum and Mass Rallies - Josef Goebbels, the propaganda minister, one of the most powerful men in the Nazi party - Effected all aspects of German life Promoted: - Aryan Race - Anti-Semitism - Anti-Communism Lebensraum (living space) - Organized mass rallies for army - Nuremburg night rallies most famous The Aryan Race and the final solution - Hitler's original idea as laid out in Mein Kampf - Aryan (Nordic Race) thought to be superior beings - Jews made out to be universal scapegoats - Originally Jews were sent to work camps to do manual labour - July 1941 final solution = extermination of the Jewish race a priority - Carried out by Einsatzgruppen a special section of the S.S. - Shooting and burying them was not fast enough - Gas chambers became the popular - Made famous places such as Aushwitz The Holocaust - Holocaust prior to WWII was a term that referred to a burnt offering or destruction by fire - The first reports to the west came in January of 1942 when the New York Times reported 100,00 Jews had been machine gunned in the Baltic States - July 1944 Allied powers got their first eye witness account when Soviets liberated camp called Majdanek - 1945 Aushwitz is discovered - It is now believed up to 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust |
Hitler and his followers follow through wight heir ideas. Start to mass exterminate and discriminate Jews.
"The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism."
What if Hitler had succeeded in his trials?
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